We’ve got a corker of a SelfMadeHero event coming up this Friday as we celebrate the release of THREE new books: Lovecraft HC by INJ Culbard; Wolf HC by Rachael Ball; and Lip Hook by David Hine and Mark Stafford. We’ll have all four of those luminaries in the house from 7-9pm, so come on down to get something signed! (Any of them would make great Christmas gifts, for example….) More details here.

The end of another year approaches, and as usual it’s time for us to bang our collective Gosh heads together to generate our (entirely subjective) top picks for the year. It’s the Gosh Best of 2018, split into two handy lists for your convenience: Adult (which you can find here) and Kids.

A few notes first:

We've only included books which are stand alone or the first volume in a series. There were plenty of brilliant continuing series carrying on this year, but we wanted to highlight things that you could pick up cold.

This covers us up to mid-November for releases. If the greatest book of the year comes out in the next 6 weeks, then our apologies!

All the titles here are now available in-store, marked with a vivid magenta Gosh! Best of 2018 sticker, so keep an eye out!

The end of another year approaches, and as usual it’s time for us to bang our collective Gosh heads together to generate our (entirely subjective) top picks for the year. It’s the Gosh Best of 2018, split into two handy lists for your convenience: Adult and Kids (which you can find here).

A few notes first:

We've only included books which are stand alone or the first volume in a series. There were plenty of brilliant continuing series carrying on this year, but we wanted to highlight things that you could pick up cold.

This covers us up to mid-November for releases. If the greatest book of the year comes out in the next 6 weeks, then our apologies!

All the titles here are now available in-store, marked with a vivid magenta Gosh! Best of 2018 sticker (as above), so keep an eye out!

Events are quieting down as we approach the silly season, but we’ve still got some goodies up our sleeve, including next week’s Reads reading group meeting which looks at Brandon Graham & co’s Prophet Vol 01. As ever, everyone is welcome to join the discussion here, Wednesday the 14th from 7-9pm. More details here.

Happy Halloween! We’re marking the day with a very special signing from 6-7pm with guests Jock and Ram V, here to sign their respective new titles this week: Wytches: Bad Egg and Batman: Secret Files #1! More details here.

This week we have the one and only Seth here to sign! It’s a rare chance to meet the Canadian cartoonist behind Palookaville, Wimbledon Green, George Sprott and more. He’ll be here from 6-7pm on Wednesday October 17th. Check here for more details.

Join London’s most excellent comics reading group this Wednesday (10th October) from 7-9pm, for a discussion of the first collected volume of Jason Lutes’ masterwork, Berlin Book One: City of Stones. Everyone is welcome to Reads, whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth. Just come on down for a 7pm start on Wednesday October 10th. And don’t forget if you want to pick up a copy before the evening, just let us know at the till that you’re buying it for Reads and we’ll give you a 10% discount on the selected title! Keep up with any news on the Facebook event page.

We’ve got a couple of corkers this week on the launch front. First up, this Thursday Tor Freeman will be here to launch her new book from Bog Eyed Books, Welcome To Oddleigh. It’s a collection of her all-ages police procedural set in a town where the oddball is the norm. Check here for more details.

Another amazing Thought Bubble festival is behind us. but don’t be sad because that mean’s it’s time for our annual post TB mega signing. This Monday, the 24th, we have three incredibly talented creators coming in to sign for you lucky, lucky people! Leslie Hung, artist on the mega-hit Bryan Lee O’Malley-penned Snotgirl? Check! Greg Rucka, writer on too many great books to count, but including Lazarus, Black Magick, Wonder Woman, Gotham Central, Stumptown, Queen & Country and on and on and on? Check! Legendary Gaijin Studios co-founder Brian Stelfreeze, lately of Black Panther fame and making his first European comic shop appearance? Check! There’s someone for everyone there! Get your butts down here, 6-7pm! More details here. And thanks to the great folks at the Thought Bubble festival for making this possible!

It’s the biggest signing of the year for us next Monday the 24th, with three incredibly talented creators coming in to sign for you lucky, lucky people! Leslie Hung, artist on the mega-hit Bryan Lee O’Malley-penned Snotgirl? Check. Greg Rucka, writer on too many great books to count, but including Lazarus, Black Magick, Wonder Woman, Gotham Central, Stumptown, Queen & Country and on and on and on? Check. Legendary Gaijin Studios co-founder Brian Stelfreeze, lately of Black Panther fame and making his first European comic shop appearance? Check. There’s someone for everyone there, people! Get your butts down here, 6-7pm! More details here. And thanks to the good folks at the Thought Bubble festival for making this possible.